Micropub oprning hours

[RealAleRobUK]

What's worse in when pubs don't stick to their opening times. You arrive at 9.30, grab your pint and a seat then the bell goes at 9.40 for last orders simply because there are so few customers in the place. Mentioning no names: Bridge House

This always seems like the beginning of the end to me. A regular haunt of mine in Manchester (back in the early 2000s) started doing this, or you'd turn up and it just wasn't open. This was after it had changed hands. Surprise surprise, it's now been turned into flats.

More recently I was at a brewery tap in Manchester which was meant to be open until 10pm. We went in around 8:45pm, ordered a drink and they started packing up around us telling us they were closing because they were quiet. You will be if you treat your customers like that!

[Mobyduck]

What's worse in when pubs don't stick to their opening times. You arrive at 9.30, grab your pint and a seat then the bell goes at 9.40 for last orders simply because there are so few customers in the place. Mentioning no names: Bridge House

Still not managed a pint at this place despite four attempts (admittedly not this year yet) all within 30 minutes after the stated opening times in the window, no sign of life on three occasions and once being told I'd have to wait another half an hour until they were ready. I don't mind pubs choosing there opening times, that's their choice, but having made that choice, please stick to them.

[rpadam]

Turn off the motorway looking for a pint and a pee in some rural idyll at your peril. Chances are you'll give up on it and end up in a roadside Beefeater or Harvester, wishing you hadn't bothered.

I know that feeling!